A cow that identifies a bull is a transbull. And a bull that identifies as a cow is a transcow. But what would you call a non-binary agendered Bos Taurus? (I don’t think freemartin is the word I’m looking for; that term is too specific.)
Beef (plural “beeves”)
Kine
Bovine
Ox
That sounds like a question for Gary Larsen.
~VOW
Ferdinand?
And what would their pronouns be? Bo, be, bos, bom / boms ?
I’d ask the animal if it had a preference, and be guided by that.
Non-binary: omnibove.
Agendered: traditionally, called a steer.
cow
heifer
calf
bull
steer
ox
beeves
bovine
kine
cattle
taurus
aurochs
Lotta words, there. I think you can call the agender and nonbinary ones kine, cattle, or bovine. The other words all seem gendered or having other connotations.
moo
Don’t fence it in.
This won’t be solved until they come home.
This is very reminiscent of those discussions about some Guinean language having dozens of words for “yam” or Eskimos having dozens of words for variations of ice and snow, whereas English allegedly does not have any such cases. I think Cecil wrote about this once upon a time.
Baloney. We don’t have separate words for every variation on yams and snow because ice and snow and yams aren’t all that deeply entrenched in White Western culture. But horses are. Look at all the different words we have for variations on horse – mostly age or gender specific, or specific breeds.
Foal, colt, filly, stallion, mare, gelding, and all the different breed names.
Hey Bud, look at all those bos over there.
Not “bunch”, “herd”.
Heard what?
A bos herd.
Of course a bos heard, it’s standing right there.
No …, I don’t think that quite works.